• Pavement, “In the Mouth a Desert” (Slanted & Enchanted, 1991) The band’s first U.S. show in over a decade featured 11 cuts from Pave’s Matador debut, so if you buy one disc between now and October, Slanted oughta be it.

• Mission of Burma, “Donna Sumeria” (The Obliterati, 2006) Their best work occurred well before Matador’s ’89 creation, but the band’s ’00s LPs deserve space next to the early stuff.

• Yo La Tengo, “I Heard You Looking” (Painful, 1993) No band screams “Matador” more than YLT, a Jersey trio that’s spent 17 years on the New York label. Still, they’ve never set foot on a Nevada stage.